With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre’s hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here’s where to start.

In the introduction to WEIRD WOMEN: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923 (Pegasus, 384 pp., $25.95), the editors Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger write that horror ...

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Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted” ...

Sources as old as Pliny the Younger, the ancient Roman lawyer and writer, tell stories of houses that are haunted.

Despite over 40 films, television and radio adaptations, Wuthering Heights is still often remembered as an “obsessive romance.” In reality, it is a Gothic Romance – and more specifically, a story that ...

A newlywed couple’s visit to his father’s remote house in the woods takes sinister turns in this gripping novel. Bay Correspondent The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania as the daughter of a casket salesman, Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she loved Stephen King novels. Then in ...

In Gothic fiction, it never pays to be the first wife. The things these women go through are awful, and are made worse by the fact they usually end up as the backdrop of someone else’s story. Here’s ...